Pastoral Resources

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?

Error is discipline through which we advance.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Obscurity is the realm of error.